Should I ask for hand scoring?

[dx1992]

<p>On the PSAT, I received a 770, 760W, and 620M. On the January 24 SAT, I received a 770CR, 630M, and 580W. In addition, I have always considered myself a good writer and am taking AP English, have always been in honors (etc.), and have always considered writing a strang</p>

<p>I find the change between the 760W on the PSAT and the 580W on the SAT to be vast; should I pay the fee and ask for my test to be hand scored just to be sure nothing went wrong?</p>

<p>Matt</p>

[Randwulf]

<p>You may have gotten out of sync on the answer sheet or something. If you feel there was probably an error though, then you should.</p>

[gcf101]

<p>Order QAS report instead. You’ll get it in 4-5 weeks. You might be able to determine if something went wrong with the scoring (or scanning) - or you indeed made a lot of mistakes.
Meanwhile register for the March SAT (if you have not done that yet) and take a bunch of FULL practice tests from the Blue Book. Provided the colleges of your choice superscore, you need to concentrate now on Math and Writing only.
Good luck!</p>

[painholic]

<p>^^superscore no longer exists</p>

[gcf101]

<p>^^based on what information?

@tokenadult

From the Harvard admission office: “If you submit more than one set of scores for any of the required tests, the Admissions Committee considers only your best scores—even if your strongest SAT Subject Tests or portions of the SAT Reasoning Test were taken on different dates.” </p>

<p>See also a Newsweek article about the renewed score choice policy adopted by College Board. </p>

<p>Reactions to College Board’s SAT Score Choice | Newsweek Education | Newsweek.com </p>

<p>Some colleges want to see all scores a student has ever obtained, period, but as one admission officer asks, if “a student submits a single best sitting of 2320,” does anyone really care “how low were her other score sets?” </p>

<p>An January 2009 email from Dartmouth’s assistant director of admissions clarifies the issue: “At Dartmouth we consider a student’s highest SAT I score in each category (or their highest composite ACT score) and their two highest SAT II Subject Test scores, regardless of how many times they have taken the tests. We never discount a student’s highest score, even if they have taken the SAT multiple times. I do hope that students will not feel the pressure to take the SAT tests four or five times (the data suggests that scores typically do not improve after the second try), but we will always consider the student’s highest scores.”

See the full post in <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/650927-just-case-today-deadline-sat-registration.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/650927-just-case-today-deadline-sat-registration.html&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;